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Dr. Kirstin Brink
I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba in the Department of Geological Sciences and Adjunct Curator of Fossil Vertebrates at the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre in Morden, MB. I am a vertebrate palaeontologist interested in the evolution and development of teeth and bones, specifically tissue structure and growth rates, and the relationship between structure, growth, and animal ecology. My research involves the use of living animal models to understand how extinct animals grew and interacted with their environment. I have worked with living reptiles (e.g. leopard geckos and green anoles), and fossils of non-mammalian synapsids (e.g., Dimetrodon), dinosaurs (e.g. Tyrannosaurus rex and Hypacrosaurus stebingeri), plants (Cunninghamia hornbyensis), and trackways (Ichniotherium). I use histology, microscopy, Computed Tomography (CT scans), Scanning Electron Microscopy, and Transmission Electron Microscopy to address my research. Contact me to find out about opportunities in the lab: kirstin.brink@umanitoba.ca |
Michael Thompson
PhD student project: A stratigraphic approach to decipher Late Cretaceous faunal turnover, Dinosaur Park Formation, Alberta, Canada
Contact: thomp151@myumanitoba.ca
PhD student project: A stratigraphic approach to decipher Late Cretaceous faunal turnover, Dinosaur Park Formation, Alberta, Canada
Contact: thomp151@myumanitoba.ca
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Maximilian Scott
MSc thesis project: Face biting in mosasaurs Contact: scottm7@myumanitoba.ca |
Bruno Costa
PhD thesis project: Taphonomy and diversity of Cretaceous marine vertebrates of Manitoba
Contact: costab@myumanitoba.ca
PhD thesis project: Taphonomy and diversity of Cretaceous marine vertebrates of Manitoba
Contact: costab@myumanitoba.ca
Maria Hussain
Otolith Technician, ENGF
Contact: hussain9@myumanitoba.ca
Otolith Technician, ENGF
Contact: hussain9@myumanitoba.ca
Lab Alumni
Brenna Findlay Summer 2023 NSERC USRA project: Characterization of enamel defects in mosasaur teeth 
Victoria Markstrom MSc thesis project (2020-2023): Thermoregulation in Late Cretaceous mosasaurs of Manitoba 
Ashley Verstrate BSc Honors Thesis Project (2022-2023): Enamel microstructure of heterodont theropod dinosaurs |
Virginia Gold
MSc thesis project (2020-2023): Formation and diagenesis of growth marks in marine reptile teeth 
Sierra Schlief Summer USRA and Directed Studies Project: Bone histology and skeletochronology in captive leopard geckos (2021-2022) and preparation and examination of fish otoliths for potential contaminants with collaborator Michael Schindler in the Environmental Nano Geoscience Facility (2022-2023). 
Ethan Vallelly Summer 2022 NSERC USRA project: Paleoecology of a marine bonebed from the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway of Manitoba. |
Adam Snyder 2020-2022 MSc thesis project: Evolution of bite force in Dimetrodon |
Aaron Kilmury 2020-2022 MSc thesis project: Vertebrate faunal assemblages of the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway of Manitoba |
Christian Plouffe
BSc Honours Thesis Project (2021-2022):
Description and paleoecology of a new
polycotylid plesiosaur from Manitoba
